The game of upmanship revolves around a huge plumb line, and the distortion of ballet steps is juxtaposed with rotating movements for the pelvis and shoulders.
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This prompted Gilbert to scale the building in the middle of an 1889 hurricane to demonstrate with a plumb line that the building was not vibrating.
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"I want this book to fall like a plumb line down through four generations, tracing that history of drugs and drink, depression and divorce, " she wrote.
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In the strong September light he sets up his easel close by the tree and uses string to mark the plumb line and determine quadrants on his canvas.
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The downward extended plumb lines don't even all intersect the rotation axis of the Earth; this much smaller effect is due to the uneven distribution of the Earth's mass.
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All of these Greenwich meridians were located via an astronomic observation from the surface of the Earth, oriented via a plumb line along the direction of gravity at the surface.
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However, based on abnormalities in plumb line deflection by the Andes in Peru, Pierre Bouguer had deduced that less-dense mountains must have a downward projection into the denser layer underneath.
38.
In these works Getter reconstructs idealistic structures from Western art that emphasize the insufficiency of the human body, using squeegees of paint and mechanical drawing tools such as plumb lines.
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The hundred artisans make squares with the set square, circles with the compass, straight lines with the string, vertical lines with the plumb line, and flat surfaces with the level.
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The same two factors influence the direction of the effective gravity ( as determined by a plumb line or as the perpendicular to the surface of water in a container ).
